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Tài liệu The Zen of BloggingHunter Nuttall© 2008 Hunter Nuttall . com1.What is the Sound of One Hand pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/02/2014, 04:20

... monetization," the old man said "Maintaining a blog is a lot of work, and the blogger has the right to earn some income The ads aren't too distracting, and they actually complement the blog by providing offers ... will find answers," the old man said "One is within yourself The other is in these blogs For now, you have no answers within yourself, so we must start by observing these blogs For the rest of the ... length," the old man said "This blogger is mainly reporting the news in her industry She's gotten good at quickly saying what needs to be said, and pointing her readers to where they can get more information."...

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What is the price of a mousetrap? The assessment of value from cloud services pptx

Ngày tải lên : 09/03/2014, 02:20

... paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally and the remainder augmented with cloud services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s overall ... with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services can only include a comparison against other cloud providers The comparison of cost between traditional IT investment and cloud ... Outsourcing RFP COW is too FAT AMS - The next stage in the evolution of IT Outsourcing Outsourcing’s Two Evils Apply CREAMS to your IT Outsourcing pain Sourcing’s Five Critical Governance Processes The...

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors? pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 14:20

... smoking, drinking, exercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient The size of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors rather than ... three binary indicators: whether the mother died early, whether the father died early and whether the mother and the father where present when the individual was aged 10 The extracted principal ... smoking, drinking, exercising and the body mass index – contribute to explaining the gradient We find that the effects of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet account...

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What is the impact of microfinance on poor people? a sysTemaTic review of evidence from sub-saharan africa pptx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 21:20

... this study therefore retains its status as a high quality evaluation This decision is discussed further in section 5.4 what is the impact of microfinance on poor people? sy n thesis Synthesis ... synthesis of findings relating to the impact of microfinance on the wealth of the poor Appendix 4.3: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to the impact of microfinance on the non-wealth outcomes ... microfinance Invest in the future Lift out of poverty Increase education, health etc 1.2.1 What is microfinance? The term ‘micro-credit’ was first coined in the 1970s to indicate the provision of...

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What Is the Cognitive Neuroscience of Art… and Why Should We Care? ppt

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 13:20

... fields; raising the profile of aesthetics and the philosophy of art within the profession of philosophy; collaborating with academic societies of aesthetics in other countries; fostering common interests ... We ask: is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably dominated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance between the work of art ... in the Philosophy of Science, 262, Springer 2010 Croft, J The Challenges of Interdisciplinary Epistemology in Neuroaesthetics.” Mind, Brain, and Education, 2011: 5, 5-11 the second half of the...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "What is the Minimal Set of Fragments that Achieves Maximal Parse Accuracy?" potx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 19:20

... side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of r corresponds to the frontier labels of t Indices link the rules to the original subtrees so as to maintain the subtree's internal ... accuracy.) 4.4 The impact of structural context Instead of investigating the impact of lexical context, we may also be interested in studying the importance of structural context We may raise the question ... could be the case that DOP's gain in parse accuracy with increasing subtree depth is due to the model becoming sensitive to the influence of lexical heads higher in the tree, and that this gain could...

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Free Movement of Goods and Their Use – What Is the Use of It? pptx

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 06:20

... Houdini-like in its contortions in its findings on whether or not the Keck conditions for removing measures from the scope of the Dassonville basic principle are satisfied.10 The issue of whether ... is therefore, in my view, preferable to examine measures of that kind in the light of the Treaty rules rather than to remove them from the scope of the Treaty.79 In the light of these three reasons, ... rules relating to the use of goods fall within the scope of article 34 TFEU Fortunately, the judgments mark a firm rejection of siren calls in favor of the importance of the unity of the internal...

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WHAT IS THE INFLUENCE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS? ppt

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 12:20

... Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... organization of outstanding engineers It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal...

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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Open Access What is the relationship docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 15:20

... that the MCID for the SF-36 is "typically in the range of 3–5 points", although they also recommend caution in interpreting 3–5 points on the SF-36 dimensions as the MCID [23] The method of scoring ... may be influenced by the degree of homogeneity or heterogeneity in the sample Distribution-based methods rely on expressing an effect in terms of the underlying distribution of the results Investigators ... worsening of health (GRoC of or 2) the sign of the change in the SF-6D score was reversed (i.e multiplied by minus one) The MID was then taken as the mean change on the SF-6D scale of the patients...

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Cutting Tool Materials What is the use of a book docx

Ngày tải lên : 27/06/2014, 23:20

... the final product is the result of ‘wetting’ by the liquid present upon sintering The extent of this ‘wetting’ during liquid-phase sintering, being dependent upon molten binder metal dissolving ... inserts consist of: • ‘Pure’ ceramic – this is the traditional tooling insert material, consisting of aluminium oxide The alumina is white in colour and is produced by cold pressing powder in the desired ... (Fig 8a) This contained tooling within the reactor, is heated in an inert atmosphere until the coating temperature is reached and the coating cycle is initiated by the introduction of titanium...

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What qualities and skills are needed for the managers to manage people?• What is the importance of good human resources management

Ngày tải lên : 08/07/2014, 10:33

... to maintain working excellence atmosphere Because the performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture of the organization that brings Increase ... strategy of the business Staff are not trained or not trained fit is the main cause leading to the current state enterprises are not competitive enough in the market 2 Conflict resolution Resolving ... order in which it needs to be completed • • Organisational skills are sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working Organisational skills are sequences of routines in...

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Báo cáo y học: "The value of sensitive imaging modalities in rheumatoid arthritis pdf

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 01:23

... enhance the sensitivity of a PD signal in RA joints [15], but with the disadvantages of cost, time and invasiveness The main advantages of US as compared with other imaging techniques include the ... in the context of clinical trials is to be useful, remains to be tested 10 11 12 Conclusions It is evident that technological advances in imaging permit an increasingly refined analysis of fine ... detail However, there is much work to be carried out in standardising new imaging technologies in the assessment of RA and in determining the pathophysiological correlates of certain image abnormalities...

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Báo cáo y học: "What is the clinical and ethical importance of incidental abnormalities found by knee MRI" docx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:22

... management of incidental findings in research studies has not been raised in musculoskeletal imaging It is important given the increasing use of MRI in the investigation of OA by researchers trained ... more precise prevalence estimate However, this is the first study in this area Our findings raise issues for the planning of studies and ethical issues related to the obligation of the physician-researcher ... radiologist or other suitably trained specialist review all the images or just the baseline images in a longitudinal study This will also add to the cost of the research study Despite the increasing...

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Báo cáo y học: "Value of anti-infective chemoprophylaxis in primary systemic vasculitis: what is the evidence" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 14:22

... role in the aetiology of the disease itself [44] Disease stage and phase of therapy In PSV, and especially in SVV, the therapeutic approach usually consists of an induction of remission and a maintenance ... [45]) For induction, more aggressive regimens, including Cyc and higher GC doses, are utilised Furthermore, in SVV the selection of drugs depends on the stage of the disease: in the localised and ... events, including severe infections in 31% [40] Schmidt and colleagues [41] reported a relative risk of severe infections - that is, infections leading to hospitalisation - of 2.44 in the first...

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báo cáo khoa học: "What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review" potx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 11:20

... findings within existing literature The weakest section of reporting across studies was planning of the interventions, with less than half of studies including any of the five elements outlined ... statistical processes to evaluate the impact of initiatives [123] A strength of this review was the quality appraisal of reporting excellence using the newly established SQUIRE guidelines Ogrinc ... established, the barriers and facilitators to establishing and implementing teams and team initiatives, as well as the strength of the evidence about the impact of team initiatives Before embarking...

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Báo cáo y học: " Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively" docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 08:22

... VAT using a 3.5 MHz probe, cm above the umbilicus The SAAT was defined as the thickness between the skin-fat interface and the linea alba, and the VAT was defined as the distance between the anterior ... the moment of study Discussing possible mechanisms and explanations for our findings, we can argue that IR presence is the most important factor in determining the fat deposition in organs (in ... to a stringent homeostasis model assessment of IR (HOMA) cut-off (>or = 1.95 as insulin resistant) [16] Exclusion criteria were a history of infectious chronic diseases including hepatitis B and...

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Báo cáo y học: "What is the role of surfactant and inhaled nitric oxide in lung transplantation" pps

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 18:21

... considered This interesting approach was successful in the experimental setting of acute lung injury and needs to be verified in clinical indications other than lung transplantation Competing interests ... solution the hypothesis that this combination prevents intrapulmonary shunt more effectively than does either intervention alone, and that it reduces inactivation of surfactant substitutes In summary, ... transplantation In the cases of graft failure, brain death and infection of the donor lung, reduced surfactant function is aggravated by preservation of the graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore,...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Science review: Carnitine in the treatment of valproic acid-induced toxicity – what is the evidence" pot

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 22:22

... Conversely, there is no evidence for accumulation of valproylCoA in brain tissue, suggesting that the effects of VPA in the CNS are independent of the formation of this metabolite [80] Development of ... endogenous synthesis of carnitine by blockade of the enzyme butyrobetaine hydroxylase Fourth, valproylcarnitine inhibits the membrane carnitine transporter, thereby decreasing the transport of extracellular ... than 3% of VPA is excreted unchanged in the urine [10,14,15], much of which is in the form of valproylcarnitine [27,28] Elimination of VPA follows first-order kinetics, with a half-life ranging from...

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Báo cáo y học: " Recombinant human activated protein C in acute lung injury: what is the role of bronchial circulation" docx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 11:23

... into the pulmonary microcirculation To test this hypothesis, several investigators have tied off the bronchial artery of sheep and then exposed the animals to smoke In these studies the hypothesis ... animals of their neutrophils and determine how this affected the response to inhalation injury In these studies of sheep depleted of their leukocytes, a high percentage of the response to smoke inhalation ... lungs of sheep have a special feature, a single bronchial artery, and a single lymphatic draining of the lung A 10-fold increase in bronchial blood flow could be shown within 20 minutes of smoke inhalation...

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Báo cáo y học: "Dynamic models of immune responses: what is the ideal level of detail" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 16:20

... pathogenesis and pathogen time-courses The number of components [7,36] that can be modeled is smaller than in discrete models because of the increase in the number of parameters The state of the variables ... 1), the deterministic (noise-free) framework is most frequently used at the cellular level As the number of components included in a model increases, so does the number of parameters, and the ... relationships; this issue is dealt with by the techniques of reverse engineering [40] Observations taken at many time-points minimize the uncertainty about the behavior between the observations The availability...

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